New Orleans Confronts Costs of DA's Firings

Gwen Filosa of New Orleans' Times Picayune newspaper details a civil rights judgment against the Big Easy's District Attorney, Eddie Jordan. A jury found the city liable for $1.9 million related to firings that followed Jordan's arrival in office in January 2003.

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